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Cookbook Holder A Sellout Success!
September 1st, 2005
Contact: Leonard Duffy
lduffy@wcvt.com
Len Duffy, founder of Chittenden Research and Development, LLC, (CR&D) and his son Brennan Duffy have developed the "Ultimate Cookbook Holder" which was a sellout success at QVC's "Decade of Discovery" live TV show in Portland, Maine on July 15, 2005. The show featured ten of 100 new products chosen from thousands of applicants. Brennan, who now heads CR&D's spin-off company, Over the Edge Products, LLC, sold over 2,000 of the Ultimate Cookbook Holders in less than six minutes on the show.
The Ultimate Cookbook Holder is designed to hold cookbooks and recipes at a convenient eye level in a busy kitchen. It provides a portable platform that hangs on an existing shelf or cabinet while freeing counter space below. When supported by a kitchen cabinet, the cabinet door may be opened and closed while the holder is in use. The holder features multiple page holders, a mechanism to hold stiff books or magazines open, and a unique design that allows optional countertop use. The holders are made in Vermont using native hardwood plus solid brass fittings with a choice of painted or natural wood deck.
The Ultimate Cookbook Holder was named the "Best New Product" at the New England Products Trade Show in 2003. It has been featured on the Food Channel and Home and Garden Network (HGTV), and has been highlighted in newspapers and magazines throughout the country. The holder is sold through the company website www.overtheedgeproducts.com, as well as through selected kitchenware retailers, catalogs, and QVC.
Over the Edge Products, LLC was launched as a family business in 2003, with the patent pending Ultimate Cookbook Holder as its flagship product. Over the Edge Products, with Chittenden Research and Development, LLC, is working to build up an extended line of household, office and retail products.
Len credits InventVermont as a great place to network with other inventors. By networking, he has obtained a broad overview of what has worked (and failed) for other inventors in the total invention process. Other Vermont inventors provide encouragement beyond their own diverse interests. Speakers at each monthly meeting of InventVermont present a wide range of ideas and help that would be difficult for individual inventors to find from any other source.
InventVermont wishes continued success to Len and Brennan Duffy in all their inventive endeavors.
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